By Travis Johnson
If you follow Australia’s busiest director, Kriv Stenders, on social media, you’ve already seen a ton of behind the scenes photos from Danger Close, his currently-in-production film about the Battle of Long Tan. however, star Travis Fimmel has been absent from Kriv’s BTS happy snaps – evidently because they’ve been saving him up for a big reveal. And lo! here it is:
That’s the former Viking himself as Australian Army Lieutenant Colonel Harry Smith, stalking through the rain and trying to ignore the film crew in the foreground.
Written by Stuart Beattie (Collateral, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Australia), Danger Close tells the incredible true story of when in the late afternoon on August 18, 1966 in South Vietnam, for three and a half hours in torrential rain, amid the mud and shattered trees of a rubber plantation called Long Tan, Major Harry Smith and his dispersed company of 108 young and mostly inexperienced Australian and New Zealand soldiers fought for their lives, holding off an overwhelming enemy force of 2,500 battle hardened North Vietnamese and Main Force Viet Cong soldiers. With their ammunition running out, their casualties mounting and the enemy massing for a final assault, amid non-stop artillery barrages, each man braced themselves for the fight of their lives.
Production is still underway in Queensland so we’re a fair way off from seeing a trailer, but we are keen AF for this one.